Improvement in reed boards and plates for organs



T. MEINHOLD.

REED-BOARDS AND PLATES F-OR ORGANS. 178,658.

Patented June13,1876.

NPETEI'ISv PNOTO-UTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTONv D C.

UNI ED STATES PATENT O FIoE,

THEODORE MEINHOLD, OF EUDOLSTADT, GERMANY.

IMPROVEMENT IN REED BOARDS AND PLATES FOR ORGANS.

*pecification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,658, dated June 13,1876; application liled December 1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE MEINTaoLD,- 0i ltndolstadt, of the Provinceof Thuringia,

ot' the Empire of Germany, have invented a new and useful Improvement inthe Reed Plates and Boards of Reed Musical Instruments; and do herebydeclare the same to be fully described in the following specificationand represented in. the accompanying drawings, of which Figure 1 is atop View, and Fig.2 an end view, of three reed-plates and their boardprovided with my invention, which consists in a reed-plate and itssocket made tapering or wedgeshapcd from end to end, as shown, itssocket B in the support-board O being similarly shaped, and it is alsogrooved on each edge, as shown at c c, to receive the plate.

In case ofshrinkage or contraction of the support-board, the reed-platesmay be easily set up so as to make tight joints in their sockets.

I claim as my invention as follows, viz:

l. A reed-plate tapering in width, or wedge- -shaped from end to end,substantially as shown and described.

2. The reed-board having the sockets for reception of the reed-plates,made tapering from end to end, or wedge-shaped, substantially asdescribed. a

THEODORE MEINHOLD.

Witnesses:

WERNHARD GREINING, (3. (J. BU'rI-IRAUFF.

